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Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Mancunian electronic musician Peter Hook from New Order and Joy Division.

New Order were famous for mixing Moog sequences and Oberheim drum machines with Peter Saville artwork. Their single ‘Blue Monday’ famously depicted a 5 1/4″ floppy disc that cost more to produce than they made, so they lost money with every sale. It sold by the swimming pool full.

Peter Hook on Gas 0095…

“very interesting, reminds me of Faust and a more atmospheric Kraftwerk, very interesting music!”

Hooky

New Order - Blue Monday (1983)

Many thanks Hooky!

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Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Swedish electronic musician Magnus Birgersson who records as the excellent Solar Fields. He mixes huge organic ambient scapes with broken beats and electronics, released on Ultimae, the sunniest place in France. Magnus also drew one of the winners in our Gas 0095 competition on Monday.

“Gas 0095: A timeless masterpiece that still sounds unique and fresh. Top notch ambient music that will take you on an unforgettable journey.”

Magnus Birgersson (Solar Fields)

Solar Fields - 6.7 - from the album Reflective Frequencies

Many thanks Magnus!

Visit Solar Fields…

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Many thanks for everyone who took the time to add a comment and for all the kind words on our recent anniversary draw.

The results were drawn at random by fellow artists; Charles Webster (Presence, Furry Phreaks, Symetrix etc), Magnus Birgersson (Solar Fields), and Martin Iveson (Atjazz).

The Gas 0095 collection of CD + t-shirt + MP3 + Flac24 + Minimoog, Moog Modular and mini Gas 0095 models goes to…

Nick Poznick (US) - “Awesome guys!”

And two runners up prizes of the Gas 0095 collection minus the t-shirt goes to…

Derok - “Yeah!!! This is good stuff! Beautiful music. Thanks and good luck to all.”

Numbskull (Ireland) - “Happy Anniversary indeed - look forward to the release of more great tracks!”

Many thanks to Charles, Magnus and Martin for drawing the numbers

Gas 0095 - giga zoom

A mix of tracks from the Gas 0095 album. Watch in HD

We have more Gas related posts over the next few weeks including interviews, studio pics, a quote a day, and the Q&A.

The Gas 0095 Q&A post is still open, so if you’d like to know anything about Gas 0095, ask a question on our Q&A blog post (link), or via our Facebook or Contact pages. Ask a question now…

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Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from Pete Namlook, the prolific electronic German musician. Owner of the classic Fax label, he’s released music with Klaus Schulze, Biosphere, Richie Hawtin, HIA, Mixmaster Morris and many others.

Peter’s laconic quote about Gas 0095…

“Simply a classic”

Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze - Dark Side of the Moog

Many thanks Pete!

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Everyday for the next week or so we’re going to be posting quotes from fellow electronic musicians about Gas 0095.

Silver Apples were one of the pioneers of electronic music and atonal arrangements, experimenting with oscillators (named The Simeon) on their first two albums in 1968 and 69. They were recently quoted by Portishead as being a major influence on their recent and excellent ‘Portishead: Third’ album, and you can see the heavy influence with their video embedded below.

Simeon sent us this poem he wrote about Gas 0095

Mondrian discovers Soyuz.
Leger in slo mo.
Minotaurs lie in ambush
while strawberry felons
make ritual pilgrimages
to the altar of Sekhmet.
Turner lying low.

Mondrian discovers Soyuz.
Hannibal Lester whispers
sweetly in your eyes.
Kramers Kandy Kitchen.
Freudian orthodontics.
Cezanne celebrates ooze.

Simeon (Silver Apples)

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Silver Apples - ‘Oscillations’ and ‘Seagreen Serenades’ (1968)

Simeon will be playing festivals and concerts across the globe in 2010 including the Field Day Festival in London’s beautiful Victoria Park and dates in the UK and Europe to follow. See silverapples.com for more.

Many thanks Simeon!

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I’m interviewed by Paul Frankland (Woob) on his stylish Season 9 blog about my new High Skies - Sounds of Earth release.  We talk about recording; now, then, and the future…

High Skies - Sounds of Earth by  microscopics

Read interview…

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Woob (Paul Frankland) is offering his classic track: Fourteen Thirtythree (from Emit 2295) for free by signing up to the woob mailing list. You can sign up via his website or by downloading the free EP1 here.

If you have previously bought any track from woobsound (bandcamp) you have automatically signed up for the mailing list already, please check your spam box for goodies.

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Peter Kirn at CDM has released the Osmos soundtrack as a free download at the excellent CreateDigitalMusic.com site, the  online technology magazine for musicians.

Osmos is the excellent ambient zen game from Hemisphere Games and features a soundtrack by Biosphere, Gas, High Skies, Julien Neto, Loscil and others. It’s available on PC , Mac and soon to be iPhone.

The 50 minute soundtrack podcast  is available as an MP3 and enhanced MP4.

Track List
Vincent et Tristan – Osmos Theme (two excerpts)
Gas – Discovery
Loscil – Lucy Dub
Loscil – Roschach
Loscil – Sickbay
High Skies – The Shape of Things to Come
Julien Neto – From Cover to Cover
Julien Neto – Farewell

The Shape of Things to Come is also a free download from us. (download)

Visit CreateDigitalMusic.com now to read the full article and download the whole soundtrack.

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The Gas 0095 album was first released fifteen years ago this month, and was the second artist album on Emit Records. To celebrate, we’re giving away the Gas 0095 Collection, plus we’ll have other posts, interviews, and freebies over the next couple of weeks.

Gas 0095 - giga zoom

A mix of tracks from the Gas 0095 album.
Select 480P for higher quality or Watch in HD

Simply add a comment to this post to be in with a chance to win.  The first name out of the quantum random number generator will win the Gas 0095 Collection…

Gas 0095 Collection = CD, t-shirt (Gas or High Skies), flac 24bit, MP3 320k including digital booklet, plus Microscopics Minimoog, Moog Modular and mini Gas 0095 models.
Two runners-up will win the Gas 0095 collection minus the t-shirt.

Draw will take place on Monday 8th March.
If you already own the collection or don’t want to win, you can still add a comment; then if you win we’ll make a note that you won but added your prize back into the pot.

Simple, just add a comment below. (we don’t keep any email addresses entered with comments)

UPDATE: The competition is now closed. The winners are announced here. A big thank you to everyone who commented!

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Gas 0095 15 year anniversary Q&A
If you have any questions about Gas 0095, let us know here and we’ll answer a selection in another blog post.

Anything you like; how it was recorded, what the cover is, which track was recorded first, did any mistakes make it to the CD, mastering, track names, what’s the width of the CD in atoms, how many CDs stacked on top of each other would it take to get into space… Let us know any questions you have and we’ll answer them in a future post.

You can send any questions via our contact page, Facebook or leave a question in the comments below.